STEAM Imaging An artist-in-residency program focusing on links between art and science The Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing MEVIS has established an exciting artist-in-residency program that focuses on links between art and science. It is also integrating pupils into this experiment. Educators have been aware of the need to promote the STEM subjects Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics for decades now, and measures have been prescribed for elementary school classroom instruction in order to ensure an early start and pave the way to an innovative society. In the meantime, the acronym has acquired an additional letter. The “A” that now makes STEAM stands for Arts. Accordingly, Fraunhofer MEVIS has launched STEAM Imaging, which gives an artist the opportunity to spend a residency of several weeks working closely together with staff researchers at Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen, Germany, and co-developed and held a STEAM workshop for pupils. Then, she spent several weeks at Ars Electronica, Linz, which hosted another STEAM workshop. The artistic outcome of these encounters was presented at Ars Electronica Festival, September 2017 in Linz within the framework of the European Digital Art and Science Network. Yen Tzu Chang (TW), the recipient of the residency STEAM Imaging, jointly hosted by Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing (MEVIS) and Ars Electronica, had the unique opportunity to work closely together with the Institute’s research staff. The Taiwanese media artist, whose previous works have included experimental sound performances, specializes in creating customized electronic instruments. Yen Tzu Chang also agreed, together with the scientists, to lead workshops for pupils in the 7th to 9th grades in Bremen and Linz in cooperation with the International Fraunhofer Talent School Bremen in March and June 2017. Following her residency, the outcome of this encounter of art and science in the field of medical imaging, Whose scalpel, was featured at Ars Electronica Festival ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – The Other I in September 2017. https://www.aec.at/artandscience/en/artists/yen-tzu-chang (Source: The Practice of Art and Science, p. 51, 52)

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